UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Many years ago in England, an illiterate couple were saved through the witness of street preachers who wore red sweaters with slogans of testimony sewn on them. Wanting to identify with their…
Sermon Illustrations
TWO ROADS - TWO HEARTS Two roads stretch out, and only two, to where the pathway ends; the one lies charted, broad and clear, across the hills that make the year; the other twists and…
SANCTITY OF WORK When man loses the sacred significance of work and of himself as worker, he soon loses the sacred meaning of time and of life." Carl F. H. Henry in Aspects
SPURGEON ON INFLUENCE There is no having influence over the great men or the little men of this age except by being firm in your principles and decided in what you do. If you yield…
THE BUCK STOPS HERE President Harry S. Truman popularized the phrase during his White House years, from 1945 to 1953. The individual on whose desk the buck rests must take responsibility and not "pass the…
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PROTECTED In August, 1992, Hurricane Andrew destroyed thousands of houses built by professional builders, but all 27 south Florida homes built by volunteers of Habitat for Humanity survived. Some of the homes…
TRAIN UP A CHILD TO USE HIS VOICE Dr. Harry Thomas brought up his child to express himself with his voice. Dr. Thomas would sit in the back pew of the church while his son…
PLEASURES OF THE WORLD The pleasures of the world are not like the waters of the Nile, which leave, when they are gone, the germs of beauty and fertility to bud and blossom, and cheer…
CAN'T LET GO Two mountain boys spotted a bobcat up a tree and decided to have some fun. One said, "I'll shimmy up that tree and chase him down, and you put him in a…
ACTIVATED IDEAS An idea is a pent-up reservoir full of energy and absolutely worthless until put into action.
TWO MEN AT A BASEBALL GAME Baseball fields are great places to study human nature. Here is a contrast of two men. One man came to the game with the express design to disrupt as…
PREACHING THAT PREVAILS The secret of the preaching that prevails, and that wins, the preaching that is authoritative, definite, positive and without apology, as the result of weakness and trembling and fear in the mind…
THE PRINCESS DEFIED A GODDESS Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii in the Hawaiian group, a great pit of boiling, bubbling, hissing, seething, smoking lava, was long considered by the natives as the abode…
INJURIES AND BENEFITS Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. Benjamin Franklin, Leadership Quotes
IF JESUS CAME TO YOUR HOUSE TODAY If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you'd do. Oh, I know you'd give your nicest…
NOTHING LOST Nothing is lost that is done for the Lord, Though it be ever so small. The smile of the Savior approves of the deed As if it were greatest of all.
NUMBER ONE BOSS The seven secrets of being a number one boss: 1. Develop professional expertise. 2. Sharpen your communication skills. 3. Cultivate enthusiasm. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Pay attention to accomplishment. 6.…
DETERMINATION MAKES SATISFACTION You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer
OUR OWN GUIDANCE No one is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the…
CHURCHILL'S PLACE FOR EXPERTS Experts should be on tap but never on top. Winston Churchill
